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AU 291 EX No. 516,424. Patanied D60. 20, I898. T. D. RUWLEY.

GHEEK PM) FOR FIREARMS Lpplicatiun filed at. a, 1097.)

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INVENTDF Jm QM BY ATTY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'iRAtY l). ROVVLEY, ()h CLEVELAND, Olllt), ASSIGXOH U11 'l\\'U'llllltl')S 'lO ll. 7.. ULEXKIIORN AND JOHN L. BARSUY, OF S-Ulli PLACE.

CHEEK-PAD FOR FIREARMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,424, dated December 20, 1898.

Application tiled licveiniier 9, 1897. Serial No. 657,930. 'llo model.

To a [tho/u 1'! may concern Be it known that I, 'lRAcv l). honour, a citizen of the l'nited States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahogaand State 5 of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Gun- Stocks; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to makcand use the same.

My invention relates to an attachment for gun-stocks.

I am of course aware that it is not new to attach a cushion to a gun-stock to protect the check of the shooter, and I am also aware that it is not broadly new to employ means to raise the drop of the gun; but I am not aware that any one has ever made or known an at l tachinent or device which has the practical effect of both cushioning the cheek and rais ing the drop of the stock, though technically the drop is not raised.

Shooters generally recognize the need of something that at least will give them the advantage of raising the drop, and they have many improvised devices for this purpose; but so far as I know they are unsatisfactory and always unsightly. A common expedient is to set a piece of wood of greater or less depth in the stock, according to the style of gun or preference of the user; but this always involves the cutting and disfiguring of the gun-stock, which is a very undesirable thing to do. Some have adjustable stocks for this purpose.

New I have as my invention the device herein shown and described, in which I obtain a perfect cushion for the cheek without interfering with the sight and the practical cilect oi a raised drop, and which, by making of different sizes, can be made just what any particular make of gun requires.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of agun on which my novel combination-pad is secured as in use. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the stock and pad on line 2 5., Fig. 1, showing a hollow and inflatable cushion; and Fig. 3 is a cross-section of i the same line, showing a soft-rubber or equivalentconstruction of cushion. iiiihcrof these styles or any other desirable cushioning me dium may be employed.

A represents the gunstock, and 13 the pad in its entirety. The proportions of the pad to the length of the stock are preferably about as shown, and the pad is made preferably, of a good quality of tan-oak grainleather exterior or cover 2 in a single piece and of a size to have the lacing 3 along the bottom, whereby the pad is fastened to the stock. \Yithin this outer leather covering '3 and exclusively in the top thereof is the up building portion of the attachment, which in every instance is of a cushioning character and shown in Fig. 2 as the in tiated portion or element l and in Fig. 3 as the sponge-rubber portion 5, as hereinafter described. The portion 4: is like a pneumatic tube, which may be inflated like a wheel-tire, and when inflated has the shape of a solid tube, as in Fig. 2, and uniform in cross-section from end to end. As here shown, there is an inner flexible lining t, which comes directly upon the gun-stock, and next above the lining a thin stiff sheet-metal strip T, which is rounded in cross-section and cut to conform exactly to the shape of the gun-stock, and the cushioning pert ion or tube lies upon this plate within the cover 2. All these parts are constructed and fashioned to preserve as nearly as possible the design and outline of the gun-stock, and particularly so that they will build up only within the plane of the side walls of the stock and not upon the sides thereof. The sides of the pad therefore become merely a continuation of the sides of the stock and there is nothing whatever-added to the side of the stock but the thin and unnoticeahle leather cover 2, and the top of the attachment is rounded in cross-section in exact conformity from end to end to the rounding oi the stock. I obtain, therefore, as a result of this construction simply an up building of the stock, more or less, according to the depth of the pad on the stock, and this may vary according to the make of gun or preference of the user and according as he wants a higher or lower elevation [or the check on the stock. Usually an elevation which willbring the top of the attachment up toward the top plane of the barrel relatively about as here shown will be found satisfactory.

It will be noticed in Fig. 2 that the lining 6 f is secured along its edge to the leather cover 2 and that the tube 4 is held to its shape by the pocket formed between said cover and the rigid plate 7, so that the said tube can be inflated and will have the requisite shape before placing it on the gun.

In Fig. 23 the invention is so far modified as j to employ a soft spongy-rubber cushion 5 or 1 other equivalent. cushioning material. In this instance the sheet-metal plate 7 may be omitted, as the rubber alone will hold its shape; but said plate is shown in the present View.

Both styles of attachments here shown are constructed to engage over the comb 8 of the i stock, and hence both have a downwardlycurved lip U for this purpose, and the front edge of the attachment runs back from this i point behind the pistotgrip and down over the side of the stock to its bottom, where the I lacing il serves to fasten the attachment firmly on the stock; but when the attachment is unlaced and removed the stock is left perfect and entire as it was originally and as if no attachment whatever had been upon it.

Of course any other suitable cover than leather may be used, if preferred. It will be noticed also in Fig. 1 that the attachment has the same depth at its top from end to end; but its sides conform to the deepening crosssection of the stock from the comb rearward and are gradually wider toward the rear. The usual length at the top is about six and a half inches.

3 and a lip What I claim is 1. The attachment comprising the cover having laeings along its edges from end to end, a lining between the sides of the cover to engage directly over the top of the gun stock, and a pad between said liningand cover conformed to the shape of the topof the gun stock and substantially the same width and having a straight top portion from end to end on the said attachment to engage down over the comb of the stock, substantially as described.

2. An attachment forgnirst tlt'liS constructed to afford a raised cheek-rest on the top of the stock and having a lip to engage over the shoulder of the comb, and means along the edges of the attachment to fasten it on the stock, substantially as described.

An attachment for gun-stocks consisting of a plain flexible sheet-eover provided with lacings along its edges, and a llcxible lining extending across between the sides of the cover and adapted to engage upon the gunstock when the lacing is tightened, in combination with a separate pad in said cover over said lining concave-convex in cross-section and of the same cross-section at all points substautiallyas the top of the stock and haviug a substantially straight top surface from end to end, in cotnbination with the stock of the gun, substantially as described.

Witness my hand to the foregoing speeiiication this (3th day of November, 185M".

TRACY l). ROWLI-LY.

W i tn esses:

II. T. Flsnen, R. l3. Moses. 

